Playlist: The Easy Way

A continuing celebration of my favorite easy listening. Updated. Enjoy! 

01. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass – “Slick” (1968)

02. Lalo Schifrin – “The Man from Thrush” (1965)

03. Astrud Gilberto – “Windy” (1968)

04. Quincy Jones and His Orchestra – “Soul Bossa Nova” (1962)

05. Peter Thomas – “Caught at Midnight” (1967)

06. The Ray MacVay Sound – “Kinda Kinky” (1965)

07. Henry Mancini and His Orchestra – “Moon River Cha Cha” (1961)

08. The Sandpipers – “Never Can Say Goodbye” (1971)

09. Martin Denny – “Congo Train” (1959)

10. Hugo Montenegro – “Lady in Cement” (1968)

11. Bert Kaempfert – “Bert’s Bossa Nova” (1964)

12. Chris Montez – “The Face I Love” (1968)

13. Nick De Caro and Orchestra – “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” (1969)

14. Kai Winding feat. Kenny Burrell – “Hero” (1963)

15. Luiz Henrique feat. Walter Wanderely – “Happy Birthday” (1968)

16. Walter Wanderely – “Telefone” (1964)

17. Martin Böttcher Und Sein Orchester – “Sonderdezernat K1” (1972)

18. Roberto Menescal– “Você” (1964)

19. Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba Band – “Flyin’ High” (1969)

20. Ingfried Hoffman – “Thunderball” (1967)

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Playlist: In Praise of Sunshine Pop II

A continuing celebration of my favorite sunshine pop. Updated. Enjoy! 

01. Tommy Roe – “Paisley Dreams” (1967)

02. The 5th Dimension – “Never My Love (Live)” (1971)

03. Roger Nichols & the Small Circle of Friends – “The Drifter” (1968)

04. Strawberry Alarm Clock – “Barefoot in Baltimore” (1968)

05. Bunky and Jake – “Hey Buckaroo” (1968)

06. The Mamas and the Papas – “People Like Us” (1971)

07. Kenny O’Dell – “Flower Girl” (1967)

08. Roger Nichols & the Small Circle of Friends – “Let’s Ride” (1968)

09. The Bells – “Moody Manitoba Morning” (1970)

10. The Mamas and the Papas – “Pacific Coast Highway (1971)

11. Spanky and Our Gang – “Sunday Will Never Be the Same” (1967)

12. The Gates of Eden – “No One Was There” (1967)

13. The New Hobbits – “I Could Hear the Grass Growin’” (1969)

14. Eternity’s Children – “Rumors” (1967)

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Playlist: Psychedelic Laundromat II

A continuing celebration of my favorite psychedelic songs. Updated. Enjoy! 

 

01. The Fun and Games – “It Must Have Been the Wind” (1968)

02. Harumi – “Hunters of Heaven” (1968)

03. The Holy Mackerel – “Wildflowers” (1968)

04. Kathy McCord – “Rainbow Ride” (1970)

05. The Pipe Dream – “January Girl” (1969)

06. Dino Valente – “Birdses” (1964)

07. Lynn Castle w/ Last Friday’s Fire – “The Lady Barber” (1967)

08. The Lollipop Fantasy – “It’s a Groovy World” (1967)

09. The Peppermint Trolley Company – “9 O’Clock Business Man” (1968)

10. Shalynn – “Flower Song” (Unknown)

11. Stained Glass – “A Scene in Between” (1967)

12. The Pipe Dream – “The Middle of the Night” (1969)

13. The Gainsborough Gallery – “Light in the Window” (1970)

14. The Avante-Garde – “Naturally Stoned” (1968)

15. Sally Eaton – “Flowers in the Air” (1970)

16. The Second Helping – “Floating Downstream on an Inflatable Rubber Raft” (1967)

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Playlist: Folk-Rock Explosion! II

A continuing celebration of my favorite folk-rock. Updated. Enjoy! 

 

01. Tom Parrott – “Groovy & Linda” (1968)

02. Bob Ray – “(Girl with The) Cameo Ring” (1970)

03. J.P. Rags – “Soul Sunrise” (1968)

04. The Hubbels – “Hippy Dippy Funky Monkey Double Bubble Sitar Man” (1969)

05. The Spike Drivers – “Break Out the Wine” (1967)

06. The Tradewinds – “Mind Excursion” (1967)

07. The Factory – “No Place I’d Rather Be” (1967)

08. Marcus – “Grains of Sand” (1970)

09. Smokey & His Sister – “In a Dream of Silent Seas (You Can Find Me)” (1967)

10. Tony Green and Barry Stagg – “Life and Love” (1969)

11. 3’s a Crowd – “Coat of Colors” (1968)

12. Wendy & Bonnie – “You Keep Hanging Up on My Mind” (1969)

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Playlist: New Faves 03/01/2023

A new batch of my favorite recent musical discoveries. Enjoy!

I think I owned this record circa 1977

01. Debbie Reynolds – “Tammy” (1957)

02. Cecil Andrews – “I'll Take Romance” (2022)

03. Casting Crowns feat. CAIN – “Desert Road” (2022)

04. Bob Hope and Shirley Ross – “Thanks for the Memory” (1938)

05. The String-A-Longs – “Wheels” (1960)

06. Harry Belafonte – “Matilda” (1955)

07. George McGregor & The Bronzettes – “Temptation Is Hard to Fight” (1967)

08. Burt Reynolds – “Childhood 1949” (1973)

09. Margaret Whiting and Bob Hope – “Ain't We Got Fun” (1949)

10. Swan Silvertones – “Oh Mary, Don't You Weep” (1958)

11. Oscar Peterson – “Blue and Sentimental” (1956)

12. The Kingston Trio – “M.T.A.” (1959)

13. Roger Miller – “Oo-De-Lally” (1973)

14. Mr. Acker Bilk and the Leon Young String Chorale – “Stranger on the Shore” (1961)

15. Horst Jankowksi – “A Walk in the Black Forest” (1965)

16. The Ames Brothers – “The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane” (1954)

17. Seals and Crofts – “This Day Belongs to Me” (1977)

18. Gene Ammons – “My Romance” (1960)

19. Sagittarius – “In My Room” (1969)

20. The New Seekers – “Free to Be... You and Me” (1972)

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